Go is picking up traction with Real Companies doing Real Things. I can say that it's now being taken seriously within Google, and is being used for some product

Go is picking up traction with Real Companies doing Real Things. I can say that it's now being taken seriously within Google, and is being used for some production services there. I've also been in correspondence with one group at another company who have written close over 50k lines of Go code for their storage infrastructure. They're very happy with it. (Just rooting for a better garbage collector; it's coming.) Despite its familiar appearance, Go represents a different approach to programming in general. One that I find personally refreshing, and it seems to be catching on.